IT, Chuck Wendig, and Nostalgia for the 80’s

Good morning! My favorite thing to do on a Saturday is get up early before everyone else in the house is up (yes, I know I’m weird) and just surf the net for entertaining reads or Pinterest pictures or whatever. I say I’m getting up to finish the story I’m working on for you guys (the one where I tell you what happened to Charley Packstone after she went into witness protection after Cut in Darkness), but I’m really just going to enjoy my morning coffee while questing for interesting internet reads and procrastinating real work.

Speaking of interesting internet reading, I stumbled upon Chuck Wendig’s post about the movie IT. The movie and Chuck’s interpretation of IT (and life, really) are fantastic, and you should totally go read the post. And see the movie! There are no spoilers in his post, and Chuck Wendig is one of my favorite bloggers when it comes to novelists who blog. Here is how he describes himself on his blog:

Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. This is his blog. He talks a lot about writing. And food. And pop culture. And his kid. He uses lots of naughty language. NSFW. Probably NSFL. Be advised.

Back to the movie IT… I loved it. The child actors were awesomesauce, and Pennywise is frightening. I jumped several times. I laughed at the children, because their dialogue is incredibly witty and because they’re great actors. And in true Stephen King fashion, he takes someone my age back to the 80’s when life was… different. It would take a series of posts to explain what I mean by “different” in that statement, but if you lived in the 80’s, you know what I’m talking about.

Here’s how Chuck put it:

So, we’re not talking some shiny happy worldview here.

And yet, just the same, it’s a place where that evil can be defeated. It is a place where, moreover, it can be defeated by children — the unlikeliest of combatants, the scrappiest of heroes, the Gooniest of champions.

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3 Comments

Cindy O
on September 16, 2017 at 10:25 am

I don’t know if it was because I had such high hopes for the new “It” movie or what but I was disappointed. Not once did I jump or have any moments of high anxiety from fear. For it to be an R rated movie it played more like a young adult novel. I’ve thought about it and it’s not because Part 1 just had to do with just the kids because I really enjoyed the Netflix series Stranger Things which is also about young kids but it is so much more fascinating and scary. Going into it the movie I thought ok – with today’s technology the cheesiness of the effects from the first IT movie will be improved and make this one so much more scarier but the effects weren’t all that great – which to me proves how much better the first one was as it scared and scarred for life so many kids even with its low budget effects. I just dont see this one having the impact the first one did. I am hoping that Part 2 – the adult half – will be better. That was the weakest part of the original IT – in my opinion – and nothing could be worse that than horrible reveal of the spider in the first..

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